Wyoming Board of Dental Examiners

Wyoming dentist CE requirements

The published continuing-education requirements for a Wyoming dental license, laid out clearly so you can see the whole picture before your renewal.

What the board requires

• 16 hrsTotal per biennial cycle.
• 3 hrsResponsible prescribing of controlled substances, counted within the total.
• RequiredBasic Life Support (BLS/Healthcare Provider CPR) must be current; it is in addition to the 16 CE hours and BLS hours do NOT count toward the 16-hour requirement (does not count toward CE hours).

Common questions

Source: Wyoming Board of Dental Examiners (https://dental.wyo.gov/licensing/ce). RECONCILIATION SUMMARY (US-WY dentist, hours requirement summary; not verified and not guaranteed complete). (a) FULL AGREEMENT. Two blind extractors (A and B) agree on the entire numeric spine, both anchored to the same primary .gov source (Wyoming Board of Dental Examiners CE page, dental.wyo.gov/licensing/ce). Agreed values adopted verbatim: 16 CE hours per 24-month biennial cycle; one mandated subject of 3 hours in responsible prescribing of controlled substances; no format caps; no delivery-format exclusions; provider not pre-approved by the board (strict=false) with CERP/PACE/state_approved treated as broadly accepted sources rather than a board whitelist; zero carryover of excess hours; and a current BLS/CPR credential that is additional to and does not count within the 16 hours. The CE period runs January 1 of even years through December 31 of odd years. Only cosmetic differences existed between A and B (topic slug punctuation controlled-substances vs controlled_substances, normalized to controlled_substances; requiredCredentials type bls vs bls_cpr, normalized to bls with CPR noted in the label). No field is sourced to a mirror; both used the primary board page. (b) WITHIN vs ADDITIVE RESOLUTION. The controlled-substances topic is counting=within. The board states the requirement as a subset of the total: "3 of those 16 hours MUST be related to the responsible prescribing of controlled substances." "3 OF those 16" is a floor inside the 16-hour total, not hours on top of it, so within is correct. Both extractors independently reached the same reading; no within/additive ambiguity remains. The BLS credential, by contrast, is explicitly on top of the total ("in addition to your 16 hour requirement. BLS hours cannot count toward your 16 hour requirement"), which is why it is recorded in requiredCredentials and not as an additive topic. (c) WHY NOT FLAGGED. Marked extracted_agree because all four gate conditions are met: A and B agree on the full numeric spine; the source is a live primary board .gov URL (not a mirror); the sole within/additive question is resolved by explicit board wording; and no field depends on a stale or secondary source. reviewStatus is NOT and cannot be verified_live; a human operator must sign off before this state goes live. Per hard rule, every citation carries verified:false regardless of extractor confidence. (d) EXTRACTION FLAGS (human reviewer must check): 1. SLUG APPROXIMATION. The mandated 3-hour subject is "responsible prescribing of controlled substances," which is broader than opioids. The controlled vocabulary has no controlled_substances slug, so opioid_pain was used as the closest fit per hard-rule instruction. Verify this mapping is acceptable for downstream matching; a course on non-opioid controlled substances still satisfies the WY rule. 2. SUMMARY PAGE vs ADMINISTRATIVE CODE. Both extractors anchored the numeric spine to the board CE summary page and neither fetched the underlying rule text (Board rules Chapter 3, rules.wyo.gov Agency 034). B reported the rules.wyo.gov portal and NetCE pages did not render extractable text. The CE page is itself primary and internally consistent, but a reviewer wanting the statutory/regulatory citation should pull Chapter 3 directly. 3. PROVIDER ACCEPTS LIST IS ILLUSTRATIVE. The board does not operate a provider whitelist (strict=false). CERP/PACE/state_approved are recorded as broadly accepted sources, not a board-enforced accreditation requirement. Confirm no accreditation mandate is being implied. 4. CONTENT-BASED EXCLUSION NOT ENCODED. B notes the board rejects practice-building / business-management course CONTENT. This is a content/topic exclusion, not one of the 7 delivery-format codes, so it is intentionally absent from excludedFormats and recorded here only. 5. retrievedAt is fixed to 2026-07-18 per hard rule; treat as the stamp value, not an independently confirmed live-fetch date. These are the published requirements as we read them, not legal or board advice, and CEChart does not certify compliance. Confirm your requirements with Wyoming Board of Dental Examiners before you rely on them.